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  2. Courtly love - Wikipedia

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    God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favor to a knight about to go into battle. Courtly love (Occitan: fin'amor; French: amour courtois [amuʁ kuʁtwa]) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights ...

  3. Courtship and marriage in Tudor England - Wikipedia

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    Courtship and marriage in Tudor England (1485–1603) marked the legal rite of passage [1] for individuals as it was considered the transition from youth to adulthood. It was an affair that often involved not only the man and woman in courtship but their parents and families as well.

  4. Marriage vows - Wikipedia

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    The oldest traditional wedding vows can be traced back to the manuals of the medieval church. In England, there were manuals of the dioceses of Salisbury and York.The compilers of the first Book of Common Prayer, published in 1549, based its marriage service mainly on the Sarum manual.

  5. Chivalric romance - Wikipedia

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    As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a chivalric knight-errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest.

  6. Hastilude - Wikipedia

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    The pas d'armes' or passage of arms was a type of chivalric hastilude that evolved in the late 14th century and remained popular through the 15th century. It involved a knight or group of knights (tenants or "holders") who would stake out a traveled spot, such as a bridge or city gate, and let it be known that any other knight who wished to pass (venants or "comers") must first fight, or be ...

  7. Droit du seigneur - Wikipedia

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    Droit du seigneur [a] ('right of the lord'), also known as jus primae noctis [b] ('right of the first night'), sometimes referred to as prima nocta, [c] was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night.

  8. Morganatic marriage - Wikipedia

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    Charles Ferdinand, Prince of Capua (top), with his morganatic wife, the Anglo-Irish commoner Penelope Smyth (left), and their daughter, Vittoria (right).. Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, [1] is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to ...

  9. Bride price - Wikipedia

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    Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, [1] bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.

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